Help! Standoff with a mouse

[reachme]

I parked in the field at a race track yesterday and I picked up a mouse. he is behind the metal plate behind the passenger foot well hiding behind the plastic ventilation opening.

Any ideas on how I can corner him?
I have no problems getting under the car. right now I just keep flipping on the shop back whenever I see him pop his head up but I think he's catching o. help it's lunchtime and I aint leaving.

[964TargaC2]

A simple old fashioned mousetrap baited with reeses peanut butter cup always works for me

Park car leave it in the dark, set trap at the edge and I bet your problem will be over

[grizzfan]

Get a cat?

Tom

[bob deluke]

Set a mousetrap using peanut butter, set on passenger floor. Gets'em every time.

[Tremelune]

This is hilarious.

[reachme]

. . .passively waiting for mouse to come.

I hope it's not reading this

[reachme]

I was planning to spend the day installing my new elephant suspension. I really don't have time for the passive approach

[964TargaC2]

put the trap flat on the floor with the bait pointed towards the edge, mice run alone the edges

Its rare that they cut across to second base from home and they dont like noise or light

[dicklague]

THIS IS WHAT I USE:

https://www.amazon.com/Victor-Electronic-Rat-Trap-M240/dp/B000LNX06C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466962690&sr=8-1&keywords=ELECTRONIC+RAT+TRAP

[RSTarga]

Are you sure there is not a nest up there?

[RSBob]

Not to hijack too much, but had a bad mouse problem in my garage. A friend suggested a trap he invented which worked wonders cleaning out his population. I built one and have caught 12 meeces in two months. Whatchado is, take a five gallon bucket and drill two holes opposite one another near the top. Drill an empty or full if you are disturbed, pop or beer can,beer is recommended, through both ends. Take a coat hanger or piece of slender rod and slip it though one of the holes of the bucket, both holes of the can and the other side of the bucket. Bend the ends of the close hanger down and secure the hopefully free spinning can in the center of the bucket. Fill the bottom 1/4 of the bucket with water and slather the can with peanut butter. Place in a corner or behind something next to a wall,turn off the lights and wait inside your house. Next to the bucket is highly discouraged unless you have five more buckets and beers.

[ClickClickBoom]

Jerez guys you are overthinking this, 2 lbs of C4 and 10 gallons of gas on the rear foot wells, the noise and fire will scare him away.....

[sc_rufctr]

[sugarwood]

Originally Posted by RSBob

Not to hijack too much, but had a bad mouse problem in my garage. A friend suggested a trap he invented which worked wonders cleaning out his population. I built one and have caught 12 meeces in two months. Whatchado is, take a five gallon bucket and drill two holes opposite one another near the top. Drill an empty or full if you are disturbed, pop or beer can,beer is recommended, through both ends. Take a coat hanger or piece of slender rod and slip it though one of the holes of the bucket, both holes of the can and the other side of the bucket. Bend the ends of the close hanger down and secure the hopefully free spinning can in the center of the bucket. Fill the bottom 1/4 of the bucket with water and slather the can with peanut butter. Place in a corner or behind something next to a wall,turn off the lights and wait inside your house. Next to the bucket is highly discouraged unless you have five more buckets and beers.

Does anyone have any idea what he's trying to explain?
There is a bucket of water with a beer can suspended in the middle of it.
You basically have a bucket sitting on the ground.
How the heck does this catch a mouse? How does the mouse even get in?

[wayner]

Here is my well documented mouse hunter expedition

See post # 3 here

funny story/warning 4 project car buyers

[4495]

Originally Posted by RSBob View Post
Not to hijack too much, but had a bad mouse problem in my garage. A friend suggested a trap he invented which worked wonders cleaning out his population. I built one and have caught 12 meeces in two months. Whatchado is, take a five gallon bucket and drill two holes opposite one another near the top. Drill an empty or full if you are disturbed, pop or beer can,beer is recommended, through both ends. Take a coat hanger or piece of slender rod and slip it though one of the holes of the bucket, both holes of the can and the other side of the bucket. Bend the ends of the close hanger down and secure the hopefully free spinning can in the center of the bucket. Fill the bottom 1/4 of the bucket with water and slather the can with peanut butter. Place in a corner or behind something next to a wall,turn off the lights and wait inside your house. Next to the bucket is highly discouraged unless you have five more buckets and beers.


Does anyone have any idea what he's trying to explain?
There is a bucket of water with a beer can suspended in the middle of it.
You basically have a bucket sitting on the ground.
How the heck does this catch a mouse? How does the mouse even get in?

He just forgot to mention that you need to construct a small mouse scale aluminum extension ladder with a mouse sized paint tray at the top.

[reachme]

Thanks to this guy I blew a productive day waiting and risked peanut butter on my carpet but I did get him in the end - the boring way. Didn't have to resort to a giant centipede, smoke bomb or laser cat.

I also stuck my phone camera in the gap to see if he was still there and had the trap snap on my hand. thats when I had to step away. . .

[4495]

He/she looks dead.

[gomezoneill]

Originally Posted by sugarwood

Does anyone have any idea what he's trying to explain?
There is a bucket of water with a beer can suspended in the middle of it.
You basically have a bucket sitting on the ground.
How the heck does this catch a mouse? How does the mouse even get in?

Use a 5 gallon bucket drill two holes near top across from each other. Cut a 3/8"wooden dowel to span the bucket. Drill two holes in a plastic water bottle top and bottom then install dowel through bottle and bucket so it rotates on axis. Put 3 or 4 inches of water in the bucket smear peanut butter on the bottle then place a piece of wood 3" wide from floor to top of bucket. Mouse climbs up board walks out on bottle falls in and drowns. Does work very well.

[BlueWing]

Just to add to the 5 gallon bucket trap. In places where I might not visit for sometime I use an antifreeze mixture so when the drowned rodents sit in the pool for a while they don't rot and smell. Of course it is only anywhere there is NO risk of another pet/animal able to access it.

Terry